[Mitworld] New: Texas Instruments' Templeton, Sharp on RNAi and Cancer

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 31 | April 13, 2007
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[EFFECTIVE EXAMPLES OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
 AND PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE INVESTMENT]

In this final panel of the iCampus series, Duderstadt asks his
colleagues to take up the question of how to propagate or scale up
successful initiatives in educational technology, so that they have a
transformative impact on higher education.

MODERATOR:
James J. Duderstadt
President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering
at the University of Michigan

PANELISTS:
Andrew A. Chien
Vice President, Director of Intel Research

Christopher J. Mackie
Associate Program Officer, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Visiting Professor, Engineering Systems Division

Ashok S. Kolaskar
Honorary Vice Chancellor, University of Pune, India

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 32 | April 24, 2007
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[BUILDING TECHNOLOGY THAT MATTERS: GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES IN ENGINEERING]

In this final panel of the iCampus series, Duderstadt asks his
colleagues to take up the question of how to propagate or scale up
successful initiatives in educational technology, so that they have a
transformative impact on higher education.

SPEAKER:
Richard (Rich) K. Templeton
President and Chief Executive Officer, Texas Instruments


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/439/>

[QUOTE]
"Students talk about making career decisions. They're worried about
being bored when they get to the outside world. I tell them, relax, in
this world today, in the work you're pursuing, you won't get bored but
you may get jet-lagged."
-- Richard K. Templeton


EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
<http://rleweb.mit.edu/>

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[THE RNAI REVOLUTION]

SPEAKER:
Phillip A. Sharp
Institute Professor
Founding Director McGovern Institute for Brain Research


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/401/>

[QUOTE]
"This is MIT. If you've got something in the lab that's new and you know
people need it outside of the lab, you're under an obligation to try to
translate it into therapy."
-- Phillip A. Sharp


EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science <http://web.mit.edu/science/>

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MIT School of Science and Center for Cancer Research present

Robert S. Langer, Jr.
Institute Professor and Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical
and Biomedical Engineering

Engineering New Approaches to Cancer Detection and Therapy
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